Bettie Mikosinski lives in Annandale, Virginia, with her husband Casey.  Bettie writes, publishes poetry, and gives poetry readings in the Washington, DC, area.  She has studied in various University poetry workshops with Roland Flint, William Stafford, Lucille Clifton, and Margaret Atwood.  She won a prize for fiction.  And won a prize: a place in The Writer's Center book, "Center Pieces", for a poem.  She has been published in Rustlings, Phoebe, Center Pieces, NotJustAir.org, and Potomac Review.  Bettie has been a featured reader at:  the Town Hall in Leesburg, Virginia; the Potomac Review Reading Series at St. Elmo's Coffee Pub in Virginia; Barnes & Noble-Bowie, Maryland; IOTA, in Arlington Virginia; "Poets on Poetry" dialogue reading at the Arts Club of Washington; Kensington Row Book Shop; Poesis in Arlington Virginia; Kensington Day of the Book; and The Writer's Center, The Friends of William Stafford birthday reading.